7. So at the founding of Zerubbabel's temple
(Ezr 3:10-13).
So hereafter at the completion of the Church, the temple of the Holy
Ghost
(Zec 4:7);
as at its foundation
(Lu 2:13, 14).
morning stars--especially beautiful. The creation morn is
appropriately associated with these, it being the commencement of
this world's day. The stars are figuratively said to sing God's
praises, as in
Ps 19:1; 148:3.
They are symbols of the angels, bearing the same relation to our earth,
as angels do to us. Therefore they answer to "sons of God," or angels,
in the parallel. See on
Job 25:5.
JFB.
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